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Tuck Everlasting Chapter 7-8 Questions
Chapter 7
1. Who drank from the spring? Who didn’t drink from the spring and why is
it important?
2. What did pa do to the tree?
3. What things happened to make the Tucks realize something strange was
happening to them?
4. What did Mile’s wife do and why?
5. Why did Tuck shoot himself?
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Chapter 8
1. Does Winnie believe the Tuck’s story? Why?
2. How do the Tucks make Winnie feel?
3. Jesse and Miles seem to feel differently about the fact that they’re never
going to die. What’s the difference?
4. Which one feels more like the way you would feel?
5. Who was listening as the Tucks told their story?
6. Which of the passages is a simile?
A. “for they gathered around her like children at their mother’s knee…”
B. “In those days the wood was not a wood, it was a forest…”
C. “The horse was out grazing by some trees and they shot him.”
7. “the graceful arms of the pines stretched out protectively in every
direction.” This is:
A. simile B. metaphor C. personification D. figurative language